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The garden sounds great. And if I had a tractor, I'd till it 3 or 4 more times
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Great stuff KJ. Like the SOTD pic. It just might be used today ;-)

My wife got the garden in this last weekend we have many of the staples you mentioned and I can't wait to eat the fresh produce.
 
Great shave. I love the scales on your Parker.

Good luck with the garden. You are going to have a ton of great veggies this year.
 
Mystic Waters is really good stuff. It is one that has a "unique" lather and is super slick. I used my one and only tub today, sweet briar. The scent isn't one i would want to use everyday but the soap is one i could see using regularly.

Good luck on getting back into the straight razor game, it can be pretty fun.

I gave up on my garden. I have 4 tomato plants that are in buckets, i'll be lucky if i get to eat 2 tomatoes all season. I plan to make use of the local farmers market for some tasty edibles. The supermarket product is tasteless and not worth the effort.
 
Mystic Waters is really good stuff.
It's my favorite! I have over half of her scents and many multiples of my favorite scents. I'm sure I could just use my MW for the rest of my life and never run out...... but she has new scents that I haven't tried yet!
 
Great price on all those plants. I didn't put in a garden this year and am kind of regretting it. Look forward to your garden photos.
 
Great shave and picture KJ! Welcome back to the straights! Love the scales on the Parker. Did you buy it like that?
 
Great Spidey scales!

Looks like a good garden you got started.

Mystic Water has some fabulous scents, no doubt, and can be some of the slickest soap out there. I have found that it can be finicky with certain water types, and also brush types. I usually take some with me on the road and have noticed that in water that is harder than what I have at home, it performs on an elite level. At my house, it’s very tempermental by the rate at which water is introduced and thus one of my denser badgers or synths works best.
 
Count me in the group that thinks the scales look great. You did good work.
 
Greetings, True Believers! It's your old pal Spider-Man.

OK, so for todays shave I tried some samples that I ordered in. Based on all of your glowing recommendations, I decided to order a sample pack of Chiseled Face aftershaves and one GTB soap sample. Unfortunately, one of the samples arrived empty, and two of them were half full (none of the caps were screwed on tight). The whole box smelled like Cryogen.

So today I used GTB soap and aftershave....... Uhhhhh, I don't get it. It's not good. The soap performed ok, not great. There were chunks of soap in my lather. So it doesn't seem to load evenly. But the scent is just wrong. It sounded great from all the notes, but they just don't mix well. It smells light and almost citrus-like, not warm a rugged like I expected. The biggest disappointment I had was my discovery that the aftershave had menthol in it. I didn't pay attention to the ingredients. Menthol goes with certain scents, like aquatics and sporty scents. But, the menthol throws off the scent, and if I had liked it, it would have completely wrecked it. Really all I get from the scent is Cedar and Menthol.

I will continue to use up my GTB samples to see if the scent grows on me, but I doubt it will. I've tried a few other scetns form them in the past, and wasn't a fan of those either. This whole line might be a bust for me.

The Spider's Web


So I finally got my garden all planted and nearly finished. I started with a very large plot, and had no expectation of actually using the whole thing. But I did. Very little space is unused. It's all experimental, since this is my first garden ever. So I'll see what works and what doesn't, and change accordingly next year.

For vegetables (& limited fruits), I'm growing 4 kinds of tomatoes, 8 kinds of peppers, kohlrabi, cabbage, broccoli, radish, brussels sprouts, spinach, 2 kinds of lettuce, zucchini, 4 kinds of squash, cucumber, watermelon, peas, beans, asparagus, pumpkin, strawberries, peaches, some and flowers (sunflower, lupines, and something else).

The view from my deck:


Opposite view to my house:



I also have a "small" herb garden with 3 kinds of sage, 2 kinds of oregano, basil, thyme, spearmint, peppermint, lavender, and 2 kinds of rosemary.


The only thing left I have to really do to it, is get some stuff out there to help keep the deer and rabbits out. I ordered something called Deer Scram, that my Uncle recommended. We'll see if it works.

Can't wait to see what this looks like after the seeds start sprouting and the veggies start getting big.
 
Looks Great. I have an idea

"KJ & Dave's Duck, Chicken, Vegtable, Snake & Reptile Farms" We could franchise, LOL
 
A very ambitious garden! I hope it works out. I learned a lot from my first garden!

I'm with you...I'm not a big GTB guy .Just not crazy about the scent. There are other Chiseled Face scents I like, but I think the soap is above average but no where near the top. I do think it is better than what you have though. I would call Ron and let him know about the AS. He is pretty responsive and has a good reputation.
 
I'm with you...I'm not a big GTB guy .Just not crazy about the scent.

The way everyone else talks about how addicting the scent is, and how many compliments they get from it, I think there must be something wrong with me. I was out and moving around a lot, so didn't notice it, but now that I'm sitting at my desk and I can smell the air around me, it's actually making me a bit nauseous.
 
The way everyone else talks about how addicting the scent is, and how many compliments they get from it, I think there must be something wrong with me. I was out and moving around a lot, so didn't notice it, but now that I'm sitting at my desk and I can smell the air around me, it's actually making me a bit nauseous.
Them is fightin' words!

I suppose that's like how EVERY tobacco scented soap smells like honey to me. Have to be receptors that are just being hit differently for different people. Sometimes, very differently.
 
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